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IBM Spins Off PLM Unit To Dassault

$600 million deal sees Big Blue transfer Product Lifecycle Management assets to industry partner.

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The Klondike Bar Problem
During the 19th century, P. T. Barnum supposedly said, "There's a sucker born every minute." In the 21st century, those suckers now fall for PC-based scams. In the process, they hurt more than just themselves or their PCs.

Windows 7 Is Broken, So What?
Anyone who's used computers knows that Windows 7 has problems. Not as many problems as Vista, perhaps, but if you are betting that Windows 7 will work perfectly you are making a sucker bet. Microsoft has never made a bug-free operating system in its entire history. That isn't going to change any time soon.

Google Kinks Microsoft's Air Supply
Last week's announcement that the city of Los Angeles was moving to Google Apps was quite a blow to Microsoft. The $7.2 million contract would have given Microsoft legitimacy in the "cloud computing" arena. Instead, Microsoft will find itself essentially paying L.A. to switch to Google.

Forget Windows 7 Service Pack 1
If you have ever seen a survey about when consumers and companies plan to move to Windows 7, there's one choice you can count on being there: "After the first service pack." I suspect that many of the people who make that choice are simply saying they are really busy and just don't want to think about the whole disruptive OS migration thing right now.

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